Clause Structure and Language Change

Klappentext This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure, an issue of central importance since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky and Pollock. The collection testifies to the recent renewal of interest in questions of diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework. Languages studied in this volume include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. Zusammenfassung A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.

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• Authors: Adrian Battye, Adrian (Late Professor of Linguistics Battye, Adrian Roberts Battye
• Assisted by: Adrian Battye (Editor), Battye Adrian (Editor), Ian Roberts (Editor), Roberts Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.1995
• EAN: 9780195086331
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508633-1
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages